In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai Stevenson

The future is here ... it's just not widely distributed yet.

William Gibson

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma -- a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

There are no bad regiments ... only bad Colonels.

Napoleon

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Anonymous

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Plato

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Flannery O'Connor

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Woody Allen

I've always been sympathetic to women's dillemas because, coming of age in the seventies, I quickly caught on that women wanted it all. They wanted a job, a husband and a baby. That's why I was such a catch because I am simultaneously all three.

Dennis Miller

I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'cover for me.' Number two, 'oh, good idea, boss.' Number three, 'it was like that when I got here.'